his ordeal was lynched to a decades-old debt the uk owed iran worth more than $5 million. what did the foreign office tell you about that debt when you first asked them? do you remember the day you raised it with them? the foreign office, up until, i would say, past last year, even maybe later, uh, denied that there was any link between the two cases. between the deaths and the cases of my husband. once the uk paid the debt, both were released and on a government plane back home. in a statement after their release, the uk foreign secretary liz truss said in parallel we have also settled the ims debt, as we said we would. iran s foreign minister acknowledged the debt had been paid, but tie dee anywayed there was any link to the prisoner